Diversity, Decolonization, & the German Curriculum (DDGC) is a scholarly collective and forum for transnational and transdisciplinary German studies. Members of the collective recognize that oppression persists today around the world and commit to teaching and scholarship in the service of ending oppression. You can find out more about our collective by reading our DDGC Guiding Principles.
The Coalition of Feminists in German Studies Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Working Group (FiGs BDS Working Group)’s response to an opinion piece in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), “Fremde Federn: So kann es nicht weitergehen in Gaza” from April 17, 2025.
Juliane Schicker writes about Palestine solidarity suppression and related state measures devised to curtail critique of Israel in Germany and Austria.
Joela Jacobs and Jeannette Oholi put together guidelines for sharing feedback during review processes of various varieties, in English or German.
Ervin Malakaj introduces a collection of contributions reflecting about the labor of solidarity work, the building of infrastructures for collectivity, and the impasses as well as the urgency associated with such work.
Siham Bouamer and Hasheem Hakeem reflect on the institutional infrastructure of the DDFC collective, the intellectual and organizational labor underpinning the work behind it, and ongoing changes for the collective.
Nichole Neuman reflects on the intellectual and organizational impulses behind the DDGC Mutual Aid Network.
Join our DDGC Online Writing Support Groups. They meet September-December, 2025.
DDGC has run virtual writing support groups three times a year since May 2018. The goal of the groups is to organize a forum in which people working in German Studies (and sibling disciplines) can support one another's research, share writing tips, discuss pitfalls, and thereby stimulate intellectual work while building community.
The DDGC Queer and Trans German Studies Research Cooperative (aka the Pink Pony Club) is inviting you to a reading group dedicated to Kim de l’Horizon's Blutbuch. Find out how you can get involved.
The DDGC collective is hosting an ongoing reading group featuring texts that help us think with artists and academics with vital insights about Palestine. The next installment of the group will feature Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (2024) and Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024). We will meet monthly on Wednesdays at 10am, Pacific Time. Join us!
